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November 29, 2005
And did I mention we started potty training?
Rex has been off work for a week.
Slowly, day by day, I've felt a lot of my tension and anger and stress melt away. I feel almost like me again. Apparently, I'd be a great SAHM if I had a second full time parent home with me.
Of course, sometimes it's hard to watch Jamie prefer Rex for everything. To in fact fight me, because she wants Daddy to do it. The hardest was when she fell on the sidewalk and turned to him to make it better. She still shows me affection, when she can take time out of her busy Daddy-adoration schedule. And Katie, well, she knows which body her boob is buttered on.
Rex goes back to work tomorrow.
Will the stress build up slowly, or will it hit me all at once when the girls wake up tomorrow? Does the fact that a week with another parent here relieved the stress mean that it's not depression? If the stress comes back fast, and this is just who I am, not a treatable condition, how am I going to make it through the next 18 years? Are the girls going to eat me alive?
Posted by me at November 29, 2005 8:14 PM